Card-index.



No. 761,119. PATENTED MAY 31, 1904. G. W. WESTON, Jn.

CARD INDEX.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 31, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CARD-INDEX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,119, dated May 31,1904. Application filed January 14, 1904. Serial No. 188,943. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLEs W. WESTON, J r. a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county,and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Card- Indexes, of which thefollowing is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to card-index systems; and its objects are toprovide a card for such systems having combined therewith a removableslip or subsidiary card the information on which is at all timesvisible.

In the oflices of corporations a record is ordinarily kept of thestockholders of the company on cards alphabetically arranged, whichcards contain the name of the stockholder,

with his post-oflice address. Companies also keep on file writteninstructions from the several stockholders as to whom and to whataddress to send any dividends that may be payable on the stock.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby'the writteninstructions from the several stockholders of the company may be readilycombined with the cards containing the names and addresses of thestockholders, though of course I do not limit myself to theabove-described application of my invention.

To these ends my invention consists of a card provided with spaces onthe front thereof and on the back thereof with a pocket of transparentmateri lthrough which the information contained on a slipor cardinserted in the pocket may be read.

A form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, inwhich the subsidiary slip or card B is shown. partly withdrawn from thepocket 0 on the back of the card A.

A designates one of the cards of a card system having on the frontthereof (not shown) spaces for entering data and having on its back anopen pocket (J. B is a smaller slip or subsidiary card adapted to beinserted Within the pocket C and back to back with the card A, thepocket C being made of transparent material. Any information or data onthe front of the card B (the same being provided with spaces for entryof data) will be visible. It will be readily understood that theinformation or data contained on the fronts of the cards A and B may beread Without separating the same, but that they may be easily separatedwhen occasion should arise.

In the particular use of my invention above described the slip orsubsidiary card B contains data furnished by the stockholder and usuallythe stockholders signature, and it will be understood that one of themain features of my invention is to maintain such data in a position forready reference in a card system.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a card having spaces on the front thereof forentering data, with a piece of transparent material secured to the backthereof to form a pocket, and a smaller card having spaces thereon forentering data, said smaller card being adapted to be inserted in thepocket of said larger card.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of January,1904.

CHARLES W; WESTON, JR.

In presence of FRED V. S. CROSBY, J. B. MAXWELL.

